Earth is slowing down, earthquakes will increase sharply in 2018

According to the Mirror, scientists warn the Earth is entering a period of strong seismic activity. And this year, it will cause more earthquakes. However, we cannot predict where earthquakes will take place at any time.

The warning comes from the fact that the Earth is going through a period of declining rotation , or rather understandably, that the Earth is slowing down (operating on its own axis). Looking back on history, it seems that this slow rotation coincides with the peak time of earthquakes as well as other seismic activities.

Earth will have many strong earthquakes in 2018.

Dr. Roger Bilham of the University of Colorado said: "We recorded only about 6 strong earthquakes in 2017. However, we may face 20 earthquakes each year starting from the year. 2018 ".

According to Bilham, these vibrations are usually very small, sometimes slowing to no more than one millisecond a day. But according to his research, that change has caused real-world impacts. The question of how and how the impact is still not answered at this time, but it is thought that the cause is the change in.

Although it is impossible to predict where an earthquake occurred, research shows that historically, they often occur around the equator in the tropical regions of the Earth. Among the major earthquakes last year, the magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred in Mexico City in September, and a 7.3-magnitude earthquake on the border between Iran and Iraq on November 12.

According to John Callan, communications director of GNS Science, this seems to be a preliminary study to present at the conference rather than a thorough study, so the research organization will not consider the scenes. newspaper above.